This study attempts to examine the role of social support perception and emotional well-being on online information seeking among cancer patients within the context of CHESS, a well-established Interactive Cancer Communication System (ICCS). Factor and regression analyses conducted among 231 breast cancer patients revealed that social support perception and emotional well-being interacted with ...

OBJECTIVE The aims of this study were to describe the mental health of parents of children born very preterm and examine relations between parental mental health and early social-emotional development in very preterm and term born children. METHODS Participants were 177 children born very preterm and 69 children term born and their parents. At 2 year's corrected age for the children, parental...

Following predictions from the stress process model, associations between loneliness, emotional support, physical health, and psychological distress were tested in 115 Latinas with breast cancer and their supportive partners. Results showed that loneliness and emotional support were predictive of psychological distress and physical symptoms. Additionally, emotional support minimized the associa...

OBJECTIVE To assess attitudes and the influence of emotional intelligence is the objective of this work. METHOD Nursing professionals answered a questionnaire that assessed the attitude towards suicide and emotional intelligence. RESULTS The results show a general adverse attitude towards suicidal behavior. The moral dimension of suicide makes the differences between mental health and emerg...

PURPOSE During the 5 years after primary breast cancer diagnosis for women 65 years old, we examined factors associated with change in emotional well-being. PATIENTS AND METHODS We identified women diagnosed with primary breast cancer and selected women with stage I to IIIa disease, age 65 years, and for whom we had permission from the attending physician to contact. Data were collected durin...

BACKGROUND Social and emotional well-being is an important component of overall health. In the Indigenous Australian context, risk indicators of poor social and emotional well-being include social determinants such as poor education, employment, income and housing as well as substance use, racial discrimination and cultural knowledge. This study sought to investigate associations between oral h...

OBJECTIVE This study examined barriers to mental health service use and preferences for addressing emotional concerns among lung cancer patients (N=165) at two medical centers in the Midwestern United States. METHODS Lung cancer patients completed an assessment of anxiety and depressive symptoms, mental health service use, barriers to using these services, and preferences for addressing emoti...

Sexual risk behaviors pose a major public health problem. However, sufficient research has not been done on the relationship between health risk behaviors and emotional intelligence. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between emotional intelligence, and sexual, smoking, and alcohol behavior among young adults. As well as explore the relationship between health risk behavi...